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title: This closes the safety block, and its rules all fit in one breath: s… — Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and… · tree and pragmatics
description: This closes the safety block, and its rules all fit in one breath: swim between the flags and never go in after anyone (call, tell, throw), never go onto frozen ponds, helmet buckled and ears free on the bike, one at a time on trampolines and in the bowl, and no dare is worth your body. Who acts: Th
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# Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 4

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This closes the safety block, and its rules all fit in one breath: swim between the flags and never go in after anyone (call, tell, throw), never go onto frozen ponds, helmet buckled and ears free on the bike, one at a time on trampolines and in the bowl, and no dare is worth your body.

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**Who acts:** This, rules, dare, block · **What happens:** close, fit, swim, not go in, tell, throw · **To what, where:** safety block, one breath, flags, frozen ponds, helmet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, rules, dare, block), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:4
# text = This closes the safety block, and its rules all fit in one breath: swim between the flags and never go in after anyone (call, tell, throw), never go onto frozen ponds, helmet buckled and ears free on the bike, one at a time on trampolines and in the bowl, and no dare is worth your body.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	in	in	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
36	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	frozen	frozen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:amod
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	trampolines	trampoline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:nmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	_
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	62	det	_	_
62	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
65	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present | This | the safety block |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent block=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | present | block's rules |  |  | one breath |  | all *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in breath=Trajectory |
| 3 | **swim** | present | This *not said here* |  |  | the flags |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between flag=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **go in** | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  | after anyone |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **throw** | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **not** **go** | infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  | frozen ponds  one at a time on trampolines and the bowl and helmet and ears |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto pond=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **buckle** | participle |  | helmet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **is** | present | no dare |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **rule** |  | block |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:4`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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